Hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack



(No'ModeL) G. E. SLAUGHTER. HOSIERY EXHIBITOR AND SALE BACK. No; 354,943. Patented Dec. 28 1886.

INITED; STATES GEORGE E. SLAUGHTER HOSIERY-EXHIBITO EaPECIEICATION forming part of Letters Pa Application filed August 14, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SLAUGHTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlantic, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented a new anduseful Hosiery-Exhibitor and Sale-Rack, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hosiery-exhibitors and sale-racks in which the holder that retains the hosiery is movable and adjustable to and from the frame of the exhibitor and salerack; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack to which the hosiery can be quickly and easily attached or detached; second, to provide an extensible hosiery-ex hibitor that when suspendedabove the floor will admit the hosiery'to be readily drawn down for examination without necessarily detaching them from the exhibitor; and, third, to provide a hosiery-exhibitor thatwhen so suspended will draw the hosiery upward when it is desired. I attain these obj eets by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front View of the hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack, showing the holder drawn away from the frame. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the front of the hosieryholder with the shield removed. Fig. 4; is a blank for the shield. Fig. 5 isadetailed view of the plate through which the notched bar moves.

Similarletters refer to similarparts throughout the several views.

The side pieces, B B, and the cross-pieces O O, which are mortised into the side pieces, constitute the frame of the exhibitor and salerack. The block A, the ledge d, the pins ww, the spring e, and the shield P, hinged to the ledge, constitute the holder of the hosiery. The guide-rods a a have their tops headed to prevent them from being drawn from the frame, and they slide loosely through apertures in the side pieces of the frame, and their lower ends are driven into or firmly secured to the top of the block A. The bow-shaped spring-retainer b is driven into the top side piece of the frame between the guide-rods, and has a notch cut into its upper endto prevent the spring from PATENT OFFICE.

, or ATLANTIC, IOWA.

R AND SALE-RACK.

tent No. 354,943, dated December 28, 1886.

Serial No. 2l0,875. No model.)

moving sidewise. Theupper end of the spiral spring t is bent around and secured to the spring-retainer b, and the lower end is bent around and secured to the staple p, which is driven into the block A. The spring 23 passes loosely through an aperture in the top side piece of the frame. The bottom side piece of the frame is cut away, so as not to interfere with the spring 25 or notched bar a. The plate 2' is secured with screws to the bottom of the lower side piece of the frame, and it has a slot, m, through which the notched-bar it extends and slides. It is cut away upon one side, so as not to interfere with the-spring t. The notched ban a is pivoted to the block A by means of the staple as. It is also pivoted atits lower end to the finger-lever. r. The fingerlever r is pivoted to the back of the block A by means of the staple y. The spring 1) is firmly secured at one end to the block A, and is pivoted at the other end to the finger-lever r by means of the teat o. This spring presses the upper end of the finger-lever toward the block, and causes the notches of the bar t to engage with the edge of the plate t, next to the back part of the slot m. The slot m is made of sufficient size to allow the notched bar to move easily through it. The pins w to are driven into or secured at their rear ends to the front .of the block A. The spring 0 presses against the top of the shield P, and is secured to the bottom of the ledge d by beingbent under the ledge and screwed to the same. The wire 9 is bent backward at each end, and has each end driven into the ledge a proper distance toleave aspace the thickness of the shield between the front of the ledge and the wire. The shield P is hinged to the ledge d by bending the parts 8 s of the shield-blank, as shown in Fig. 4, around the Wire 9. The shield not only covers the points of the pins to w, but also prevents the hosiery from slipping off from the pins. When desired, the block A may be shaped so as to extend downward, as shownin Fig. 2.

The frame of the hosiery-exhibitor and salerack may be made long enough to accommodate any number of hosiery holders. The hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack may be suspended above the floors of stores and shops in any convenient manner.

It is evident that if the hosiery-holder be drawn downward the notched barn will engage with the plate 2' and prevent the spring tfrom drawing the holder upward; but by pressing upon the lower end of the finger-lever r the notched bar will become disengaged from the plate, and the springtwill then draw the holder up to the frame. Thus while the frame is secured in one position the hosiery can be drawn down and examined and one or more pairs removed from or attached to the holder. Then by pressing the finger-lever the springt will draw the hosiery upward.

By means of this hosiery-exhibitor and salerack the hosiery, while in full-view, are pre vented from being easily stolen, and are kept up out of the way of people traveling over the floor of stores and shops, yet can bereudily drawn down for examinalion or sale.

What I claim as new, and desire to seen re by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A hosiery-exhibitor and sale-rack consisting of the frame, the spring-retainer, the

block having the pins, the ledge secured to the block, the shield hinged to the ledge, the guiderods secured to the block at their lower ends, and the spiral spring secured at one end to the spring-retainer and at the other to the block,

GEORGE E. SLAUGHTER.

Witnesses:

EDWIN S. HILL, F. B. HUeKsTEP. 

